Protect your students and staff from harmful online content
In the U.S., a life is lost to suicide approximately every 11 minutes
Over five young people will take their life today
leading cause of death
in the U.S. is suicide
The missing piece of your organization's student welfare
R;pple is a crisis support tool designed to present a visual prompt when a person searches for harmful keywords or phrases relating to the topic of self-harm or suicide.
It immediately guides users to life-saving support
resources as well as complementing existing student aid programmes.
Safe, secure, private. It works alongside any IT systems in
place.
Digital crisis aid
Protects students and staff experiencing mental
health crisis at a time when they are most vulnerable.
No cost for education providers
Schools, colleges and universities can deploy and
use the R;pple browser extension for free.
Additional protection
Complement and enhance your existing student welfare programmes.
Privacy and security-first
ISO 27001, ISO 9001, Cyber Essentials certified. Completely private.
Easy to install
Fast deployment of Browser Extension on all managed
machines. Support for IT teams in testing, pilots, and roll-outs.
Trusted by your peers
Over 700 educational institutions have already adoptedR;pple to protect their students and staff.
TRUSTED BY 700+ ORGANISATIONS GLOBALLY
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Simple. Safe. Secure.
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Browser Extension
Protect desktop machines managed by your organization – anytime, anywhere
Any operating system
Most popular desktop browsers
Various deployment options
No cost for Education providers
Crisis support tool
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Our hosting data is in the UK. Our analytics data is hosted in the EU. Other processors (DNS for example, are hosted in the US)
R;pple cannot report on data within your organisation. The purpose of the R;pple tool is to provide crisis intervention and immediate signposting to mental health support. This is where and when the person seeing these details, decides whether to follow that redirection, a personal choice.
We have thought long and hard about the possibility of collecting data analysis within organisations who have deployed R;pple. After careful consideration, we have come to the decision not to develop versions of R;pple which could report analysis for a specific company or organisation. The reasons for this decision include the following:
- Sensitivity - self-harm and suicidal ideation is a very sensitive subject. Reporting back on someone’s search history may have an adverse effect on the individual who is experiencing mental health crisis.
- Data Protection – feedback from our users, lived experience panels and clinicians has shown a strong preference for data protection, meaning we should not gain any access to information that could identify a person or their intentions.
- Personal Choice – R;pple provides an interception when an individual is conducting harmful online searches. Is it down to the individual as to whether they choose to utilise the support offered by R;pple or continue their search. We are not able to block people from accessing content outright, but we can provide support to individuals at their most vulnerable point in the hope they choose to utilise it.
Customer data is something we actively seek to avoid, at every turn. Our mission is to get R;pple onto as many machines as possible and to provide a vital safety net of support if somebody is researching a way to end their own life.
1. Please let us know how many machines you will be deploying R;pple onto
2. Please let us know what browser you will be deploying R;pple onto
3. Please liaise with your IT department to deploy the extension en masse. There are three primary ways to get the extension onto managed machines:
a. GPO (Group Policy Object)- You can force install a browser extension on Chrome and on edge using this method
b. Force installs through browser management. Both Google workspace and Microsoft 365 have methods for this
c. Using a third-party management tool (of which there are many – if your organisation does not use one, this is not an option to consider)
4. Have a look on our website under ‘The Communications’ here to think about how, when and if you’d like to publicise our partnership and the positive step you’re taking to protect your colleagues wellbeing and mental health.
R;pple is not able to determine any organisational or individual identifiable data from the metrics that are collected. However, we can provide very high-level organisational information in the sense that we could tell you how many times R;pple has been ‘activated’ within your region.
The only PII is IP address, if the extension is triggered. The majority of your users will not trigger the extension of course and for these we have no analytics or IP address collected. Our analytics activate along with the extension popup and provide us with information - some basic operating system, browser type, screen size and subsequent ‘in tool’ navigation data. After R;pple has been closed, no further data collection can occur. Our hosting data is in the UK. Our analytics data is hosted in the EU. Other processors (DNS for example, are either in the UK or EU)
IP addresses are only collected by our servers in the course of providing signposting content (e.g. to ensure we are signposting to French suicide prevention resources if the harmful search is conducted in France).
The data is held within server logs for a maximum of two weeks - 1 month.
The browser extension sits over the top of the browser and activates when a word or phrase is searched for that matches the word list installed with the extension. The extension does not in itself collect any search history. The browser, depending on its settings and whether in private browsing/incognito may collect a search history as it would usually, irrespective of the R;pple tool being installed.
Browsers do not track uninstalls or installs, but they do know how many active users we have on a weekly basis.